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Author, fanwriter, trash bandit, queer geek feminist, dork. Jack of all pronouns, mxtress of none. Yells about hockey. Aussie in the US.

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    1. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 25 Dec 2017

      Thread: So, I've just been sent an email telling me I've been "nominated" for a "best story award," though the email doesn't list a specific thing I've written and it's not clear if this is for a novel or a short story. It also asks you to "submit your entry" by clicking a link.

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    2. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 25 Dec 2017

      On clicking through, there's a huge page of bumf about why this particular award is SO VERY GREAT AND IMPORTANT, YOU GUYS. It's a "limited entry contest with monthly award winners," but also somehow EXCLUSIVE.

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    3. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 25 Dec 2017

      And then, when it asks you to click the genre to which your story - now called a book - belongs (provided entries in your category haven't already "sold out"!), up pops a "reading fee" request of $14.95 US.

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    4. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 25 Dec 2017

      To say the least, this reads as a shoddy, ill-advised business practice at best and an outright scam at worst. For starters, you don't send someone an email telling them they've ALREADY BEEN NOMINATED when what you MEAN is, "we want you to nominate yourself and also pay us."

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    5. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 25 Dec 2017

      What feels even shadier is the fact that the *preview* of the email they send contains ENTIRELY DIFFERENT INFORMATION to what's contained in the actual body.

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    6. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 25 Dec 2017

      Here is how the email shows up in my inbox: with text that suggests a "friend, reader or relative" has nominated my work, but with the sentence sadly tailing off before we can learn just WHAT has been nominated.pic.twitter.com/9zmJove7vX

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    7. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 25 Dec 2017

      But when you actually OPEN the email, NONE of that text appears. Instead, you get this:pic.twitter.com/Oj2m9oYXHD

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    8. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 25 Dec 2017

      Note in particular the emphasis on the fact that, according to this email, YOU ARE ALREADY NOMINATED, such that you can put it in your bio. But when you click the link? A COMPLETELY different story.

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    9. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 25 Dec 2017

      NOT ONLY is there a whole section on “Why Should You Join Our Contest?” - which, given the claim that you’re ALREADY nominated, is a flat-out contradiction - but they also want to charge you for the privilege.pic.twitter.com/2TlEXQJqTn

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      Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 25 Dec 2017

      Currently, the “reading fee” is “discounted” because CHRISTMAS. Makes you wonder what they’re charging the rest of the time.pic.twitter.com/peVkfT3oo2

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        2. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 25 Dec 2017

          Note the positioning of MOAR WINNERS ALL THE TIME UNLIKE THOSE YEARLY AWARDS THAT MAKE YOU *WAIT* OMG as a prestige point. This from a site that uses the word "distinguished" (according to who?) FOUR TIMES on the main page alone.

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        3. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 25 Dec 2017

          Also note that, once again, there's dissonance between the body text of the main webpage and what appears in the mouseover and in the tab header of the website, both of which describe the contest as "exclusive" - something it DEMONSTRABLY ISN'T, given self-entry & monthly wins.pic.twitter.com/jd0BZFimix

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        4. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 25 Dec 2017

          Like, this is some ugly, duplicitous shit. And even as someone with only the most tenuous, secular-atheist connection to Christmas as a meaningful holiday, using a December 25th mailout - so being nominated seems like a PRESENT - while then offering "discounted fees" is SKEEVY AF

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        5. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 25 Dec 2017

          Also, let's back up to the apparent @nytimes supporting quote used in the email body, as shown in screenshots earlier in this thread: "The prestige of such literary awards is immense for an author... awards drive up sales."

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        6. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 25 Dec 2017

          Typing the first line of that quote + "NY Times" into Google reveals, yes, a real NY Times article - one that was published in 1992, in reference to the National Book Award & Pulitzer Prize. IT'S A TWENTY-FUCKING-FIVE YEAR OLD ARTICLE YOU GUYS.http://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/16/business/the-media-business-even-in-book-awards-to-victors-go-the-spoils.html …

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        7. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 25 Dec 2017

          The fact that this "award" is for something called the "New York Literary Magazine" is, of course, I'm sure, a mere coincidence, and NOT AT ALL a brazen ambush marketing tactic to make people think this site and the NY Times are related by including a 25-year-old quote.

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        8. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 25 Dec 2017

          And then there's the pull quotes displayed next to the "distinguished award seal" and a pic of the trophy you might win, thereby directly implying that the quotes are about THIS award IN PARTICULAR. Except that, uh. They're not.

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        9. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 25 Dec 2017

          This quote, from the Author Pub website, is easily findable: it comes from a blog post that literally doesn't mention this award at all, but is rather talking about award nominations in general. http://www.author.pub/Improving-book-sales.html …pic.twitter.com/xaONEBsnSM

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        10. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 25 Dec 2017

          This quote, from Writers Digest, is likewise about the generic value of awards; however, it also mentions a few specific examples, none of which relate to THIS award. https://www.writersdigestshop.com/writing-contests …pic.twitter.com/xs7FbvUIec

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        11. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 25 Dec 2017

          This quote from John Macrae, however, is a real doozy - not only is his quote, in context, talking about the National Book Critics Circle award, but the NY Times piece from which it comes was published in - wait for it - NINETEEN EIGHTY THREE. http://www.nytimes.com/1983/04/15/books/publishing-do-prizes-sell-books.html …pic.twitter.com/QHzow048M1

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        12. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 25 Dec 2017

          This Independent Publisher quote is happily more recent, being from 2014, but still: it has jack shit to do with this SPECIFIC award. http://www.independentpublisher.com/ipland/SellMoreBooks_2014.pdf …pic.twitter.com/xweabUGQEK

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        13. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 25 Dec 2017

          Have they managed to repurpose the same 1992 NY Times quote from the body of their email on their main page, too? Why, yes. Yes they have. http://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/16/business/the-media-business-even-in-book-awards-to-victors-go-the-spoils.html …pic.twitter.com/dsJx5nLcEu

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        14. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 25 Dec 2017

          And then there's this quote, supposedly from agent @julietpickering at @BFLAgency - though you'll note both her name and the agency's are misspelled. Her quote was specifically about awards helping publishers take on short story collections. http://www.thereviewreview.net/publishing-tips/always-winner-benefits-entering-writing-cont …pic.twitter.com/j2lB545bXw

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        15. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 25 Dec 2017

          So, to recap: of the six pull quotes featured prominently at the top of the site, NOT A SINGLE ONE refers to the actual NY Literary Magazine Best Story Award.

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        16. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 25 Dec 2017

          It's also worth glancing at their "Author Success" page, which lists - again - a number of quotes from the same articles used earlier, implying them to be the successes of THIS award, mixed in with others which seem, quite demonstrably, to be about other awards entirely.pic.twitter.com/Qq0UkVC7p9

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        17. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 25 Dec 2017

          In conclusion, if you've received an email from these people, STEER CLEAR. This is a fucking scam operation if ever I've seen one, founded solely on the idea that ANY award nomination, no matter how obscure or dubious, might net someone an agent or a publisher.

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        18. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 25 Dec 2017

          HERE ENDETH THE RANT.

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